Some 260 people will have been executed by 2020 and at least 310 by 2021, UN Deputy Human Rights Officer Nada Al-Nashif said while presenting Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Earlier this year, Amnesty International announced that Iran last year carried out its highest number of executions since 2017. “After the decline in executions in 2020, Iran and Saudi Arabia increased their executions again last year,” said Agnès Callamard, the secretary. General of Amnesty International. “By doing this they blatantly violate international law. Their hunger for the death penalty has not diminished even in early 2022.”
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Last month a protest took place in our country against the imminent execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, the Iranian-Swedish academic who was also a visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The Swedish-Iranian emergency doctor was arrested six years ago during a working visit to Iran and is accused of espionage. In late October 2017, he was sentenced to death after a trial that human rights experts say was unfair.
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Also review. Robin Ramaekers spoke to Djalali’s wife:
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